Day 12: Michigan, The State

You’ll note that the titles no longer contain the “Route 66″ designation, since the whole Route 66 thing ends in Chicago. From here on out, it’s more just sight seeing and “a vacation”. We pushed north along the western edge of Michigan.

The weather was clear, but cool (unseasonably so?) with temperatures peaking in the high fifties. We decided to hop off the freeway to do a quick tour of Holland, MI, since it was a topic of a recent travel video we rented. It was definitely worth it, even though we missed the tulip festival by a few weeks. This is what I like to refer to as a “button town”, meaning to the uninitiated, that it is “as cute as a button”. And so it was, with beautiful old homes, tulip lined streets, and even a resident wooden clog maker. The town sparkled like the Emerald City. We stopped and walked through the town’s central park, complete with an old fashioned band-stand, and tulips everywhere. It is along these trees, full, dense, and hanging low, that I cought my RV TV antenna on a branch and ripped out the raising mechanism. Oh well, who needs TV with a whole string of button towns ahead.

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